The META platform of the facebook company of Facebook has moved farther than trying to connect humans and ready to focus on creating robots. Report from BloombergMeta is planning to pour money into a new project to create a Humanoid robot that is driven by AI.
It is reported that the map of the plan to start a project by creating a robot that has the ability to do a complete housework. But in the long run it seems that the company is more interested in being in the software business than dealing with hardware, focusing on the development of AI that will provide energy to these machines. Basically, Meta wants to create a brain and let the body in the robot company. Currently, there is no ambition to create his own bot. By BloombergAnd started conversations with companies such as Unitree Robotics and AI numbers
The effort will be brought by Marc Whitten, which acts as CEO or CEO or the company drives by itself. Resigned at the beginning of this month When Mae General Motor Company decided to leave the robot business
The Whitten's team will fall under the Meta's Labs Reality department, which is slightly successful with a smart glasses Meta Ray-Ban. One million couples Last year. Previously, the department was well known for burning. $ 50 billion for four years In an attempt to make Metaverse a successful thing in that money Giving Avatars VR legs But didn't pass too far
When it is obvious that AI is a big deal Meta Pouring point of the LABS Reality department More in that direction, because if you are burning money in what everyone is burning money there, no one can notice. And it is reported that the company believes that it has a good database from the experiment and AR to help develop AI for human robots. In the end, it is to gather information about how humans see and interact with the world through their devices.
Last year announced that he would start Collecting the “not specified” information from Oculus headphones Including information about “Hand, body and eyes tracking” and “physical environment”. In addition, Photos or videos Through the Ray-Bans lens of Meta will be used to train the system.
Now the company will try to change all the information to a base for software that can provide Humanoid robot energy reports that the meta believes that these bots are still many years from existence and that is still far from Can act as a support AI which is used by robot companies for their machines But if anyone knows how to act like humans, while not the only one, the Zuckerberg market